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On the 6th floor in a multi-tenant building along Yasukuni Dori in Sinjuku, Tokyo, when the elevator door opens, I heard everyone singing in chorus a nostalgic children’s song. This is a sing-along coffee shop Tomoshibi. The shop was full by the customers enjoying singing in chorus with lyrics booklet in their hands.
“Let’s sing ‘crimson autum’on page 65!”People sitting in their seats turn the pages of the songbook as the host suggests. Chords of piano begin to sound and the noisy room become quite. They all take a breath and the next breath they burst out singing together“It’s red!” Though they are in perfect harmony, over thirty customers are not members of a chorus and surprisingly there is no conductor. They are ordinary people who want to sing songs together and gather at the shop.
A sing-along coffee shop sprung up in entertainment areas all over Japan between 1950s and 1960s and are now beginning to be popular again. Main customers are in their 50s and 60s. It is so popular the shop becomes packed as soon as the doors open on weekends.
You sing for 40 minutes and then take a rest for 20 minutes and repeat this over and over again. You only need to pay 700 yen, excluding tax, for singing in addition to for dining and wining. It is not uncommon to see customers singing from opening at 5:30 pm to closing at 11 pm.
“Let’s sing ‘crimson autum’on page 65!”People sitting in their seats turn the pages of the songbook as the host suggests. Chords of piano begin to sound and the noisy room become quite. They all take a breath and the next breath they burst out singing together“It’s red!” Though they are in perfect harmony, over thirty customers are not members of a chorus and surprisingly there is no conductor. They are ordinary people who want to sing songs together and gather at the shop.
A sing-along coffee shop sprung up in entertainment areas all over Japan between 1950s and 1960s and are now beginning to be popular again. Main customers are in their 50s and 60s. It is so popular the shop becomes packed as soon as the doors open on weekends.
You sing for 40 minutes and then take a rest for 20 minutes and repeat this over and over again. You only need to pay 700 yen, excluding tax, for singing in addition to for dining and wining. It is not uncommon to see customers singing from opening at 5:30 pm to closing at 11 pm.
On the sixth floor in a multi-tenant building on Yasukuni Street in Shinjuku, Tokyo. When the elevator door opened, I was wrapped in a chorus of nostalgic nursery rhymes that filled the room. This is “singing cafe Tomoshibi”. The cafe was full with customers singing pleasantly holding booklets of song lyrics.
“Next, let’s sing “Autumn with Red” on page 65 in the songbook.” To the host’s voice, they flip through their songbooks in their seats. As the piano plays a cord, the noisy room becomes quiet, and after they take breaths in unison, a chorus starts as “How red are the autumn.” Although their voices were in a good harmony, none of the more than thirty customers there are choral members. There is no conductor. They gather in this cafe and sing just because they want to sing together.
More and more people are now starting to flock to “singing cafes” which sprang up in downtown across the country in the 1950s and the 1960s. Customers are mostly in their 50s and 60s. On weekends, the cafe is so popular that the seats fill up as soon as it opens.
They sing for 40 minutes, then take a rest for 20 minutes, and repeat this sequence. What the customers are charged besides food and beverages is just a “singing charge” of \700 not including tax. Some customers even start singing when the cafe opens at 5:30 p.m. and keep singing until it closes at 11 p.m.
*日本語の歌や歌詞をどう扱うべきか、悩みますね。
“Next, let’s sing “Autumn with Red” on page 65 in the songbook.” To the host’s voice, they flip through their songbooks in their seats. As the piano plays a cord, the noisy room becomes quiet, and after they take breaths in unison, a chorus starts as “How red are the autumn.” Although their voices were in a good harmony, none of the more than thirty customers there are choral members. There is no conductor. They gather in this cafe and sing just because they want to sing together.
More and more people are now starting to flock to “singing cafes” which sprang up in downtown across the country in the 1950s and the 1960s. Customers are mostly in their 50s and 60s. On weekends, the cafe is so popular that the seats fill up as soon as it opens.
They sing for 40 minutes, then take a rest for 20 minutes, and repeat this sequence. What the customers are charged besides food and beverages is just a “singing charge” of \700 not including tax. Some customers even start singing when the cafe opens at 5:30 p.m. and keep singing until it closes at 11 p.m.
*日本語の歌や歌詞をどう扱うべきか、悩みますね。
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